Sausage-cutter



NITED STATES PATENT onnroa JACOB PETERS, OF HUMMELSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAUSAGCUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,980, dated August 11, 1857.

T all w7wm zt may concem Be it known that I, 'JACOB PEIERS, of IIummelstown, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sausage-Cutters; and I do hereby declare V is put.

that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters cf re-ference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in an arrangement of sashes containing knives the sashes working all in difierent directions thereby giving the knives a draw cut.

In order that those skilled in the art may use and construct my machine I Will proceed to describe its operation and construction.

In the accompanying drawings which make a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a front view showing the knives. Fig. 3 is a front view of the sash ((4) and (b) seen in Fig. 1 showing their respective positions and the interlapping of their knives.

In Fig. 1 A is a box into which the meat 0 is a beam on which the box A rests. B are the legs of the machine. D is a wheel with cogs and driven by wheel E which also has cogs on it 25 is a pinion on shaft 25. This pinion Works in a rack seen on the follower f. f is a follower with head fitting in the box A which serves t0 force the meat up against the knives. Y, is a hopper through which the meat enters the box A. 7*, is a crank for setting the machine in motion. 9, is a crank on the shaft of wheel E. 27 and j are levers, p beingattached to crank 9, and j attached to rod i, serving to operate the knife d to which one end of rod (2') is attached. n is a standard having an arm to which is attached the vibrating lever which works on a pivot on this arm. F is a rod connecting lever 76 and crank q. Z, is a rod connecting lever 70 to sash a, and m, is a rod connecting lever 76 to sash b. (a) is a sash having knives in it,

' Which knives work between and in a contrary direction to the knives in sash 0 is a sash having knives in it which works transversely of the machine and is operated a guide block through which the rod (g) passes. (0) is a standard and serves to support lever (j) Which W0rks on pivot near its upper extremity.

In Fig. 2, (a) is a sash containing knives and W0rks vertically. (a) is a sash also containing knives and works transversely. (cl) is a knife, double edged, which works in front of sash ((2) for cutting ofi the meat (u) is a lever attached by a loop to sash a having (7)) for a fulcrum and serves to operate sash (c). knife (cl). (2') is a rod for operating knife w, au, w, are knives in sasha, and w) w w are knives in the transverse sash In the operation of this invention the meat is introduced through the aperture (y,) after the follower has been brought back to the rear of the machine and the hopper. When the box is filled With meat the crank (7) may be turned and the machine is set in motion; the follower f being driven by pinion t forces the meat up to the knives and against them. The knives all have a saw cut. As the sash (a) moves up while the sash (1)) is moving down, and as the knives in these two sashes work between each other they have a tendency to prevent the meat moving either up or down, consequently it remains stationary while the knives saw through it; sash (a) moving in a difizerent direction cuts the meat in another vvay, and after it passes or as it passes it is sheared off by both the up and down motion of knife It Will be seen that the contrary motion of the sashes a, and 6, are produced by their being attached to lever, la, on diferent sides of its center where it is pivoted to the arm of standard (12). The lever 76 has a vibrating motion like the pendulum of a clock; the sash (a) serves to communicate motion to sash c, by means of the lever 10, seen in Fig. 2.

I do not propose to confine myself to the precise proportions to be found in my ma chine. The follower may be geared much 'lower so as not to crowd the meat up too (9) is a guide bar for the tion t0 knife (d). The meat will be forced up regulariy and certainiy by the follower and this together with the draw cut of the knives will efEectually prevent any choking or clogging of the machine.

One of the chief advantages of this machine is the rapidity and 'accuracy with which it may be made to operate, preparing any given amount of meat in a better manner and in shorter time than any machine now in use.

I claim The employment 01: the vertical sash (a, and b,) the one arranged within the other, as seen in Fig. 3, their knives interlapping and operating in diflerent directions for the JACOB PETERS Witnesses C. H. .ALEXANDER, J. D. VILLOUGHBY. 

